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Online therapist

Candice Bruce

Supportive social worker for family and parenting concerns

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
6 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Candice

Candice Bruce is a licensed clinical social worker with six years of practice in Florida. She focuses on practical help for common problems like anxiety, depression, stress, family tensions, and relationship struggles. She centers care on each person’s own story and strengths.

Her goal is to teach tools that make daily life easier and more manageable. Candice aims for straightforward, respectful conversations rather than medical jargon. She listens first, then helps build small, useful strategies clients can use between sessions.

Background and approach

Sessions often focus on coping skills, clearer communication, and step-by-step plans for change. Her background includes work across mood concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, substance use, and parenting challenges. Candice uses evidence-based methods to support change and to help people notice what works in their lives.

She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness ideas to help with thought patterns and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy influences how she helps with relationship and intimacy issues, bringing focus back to connection and feeling. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change or facing addictive patterns.

These approaches are used to create practical next steps that fit each person’s life. Candice presents herself as a partner in the process. She encourages clients to try tools, reflect on results, and adjust plans as needed.

Her style is collaborative, calm, and focused on building longer-term skills for coping and growth.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building on their strengths. It involves open listening and helping clients set goals that feel relevant to them, which can be especially useful when managing family or parenting stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. It breaks problems into concrete steps and teaches skills for changing unhelpful thinking and coping with anxiety or depression, making it easy to practice between online sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name their emotions and improves how they connect with others. This approach is often used for relationship and intimacy issues and can be adapted well to conversations held over video or phone.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust based on what helps most. Decisions about techniques are made together, so care stays practical and personalized.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions around family schedules, work, or other responsibilities. The variety of formats also makes it easier to use hands-on tools and short check-ins between appointments, supporting steady progress from wherever the client is located.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she help with?
Candice works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, addictions, trauma and abuse, and related issues listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a down-to-earth, collaborative approach that focuses on listening, building coping skills, and creating practical steps clients can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has six years of professional experience working with mood, trauma, and relationship concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is licensed in Florida as an LCSW with license number FL LCSW SW19347 and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from other countries as noted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different preferences.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session based on the therapist's availability.

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Experience
6 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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